I don't have a great idea for a title

Beatles/ Monkees/ uhh we'll see, something else queer 60s, probably

[javelinbk]

Please tell me this is real…

[dognez]

mike's hand. if anyone cares

[ilovedig]

That's.....I mean....what else could he even be trying to do. That's so utterly blatant.

[ilovedig]

Did anyone tape last night's final Jeopardy?

The fact that she ACTUALLY saw "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."

And thought, yes, that's about John Lennon.

I wonder if she's on tumblr....

[ilovedig]

I apologize to everyone who follows me for Beatles or Monkees....I might need another sideblog...

[ilovedig]

I'm curious, did any phanfics come true? Like, is there a fic that predicted this? Cause, from the announcement to now feels straight out of a fanfic.

[ilovedig]

Can I just say that the fact that this is happening NOW?

A literal podcast all about two youtubers and their gayness and relationship when SO many companies across the world are ending their queer support is so huge?

This moment in history is the EXACT moment we need something like this most. Like, not even the fandom, the world. This is world-altering in a very real way.

When the entire world wants us to think that queerness needs to be supressed, here are two 30 somethings who are making damn sure they do the exact opposite.

And they're going to be talking about it every single Monday.

What an important thing in this political climate.

[ilovedig]

I am very very new, so feel free to ignore me since I don't know all the lore or anything, but didn't Dan and Phil meet online first, and become friends before meeting? Were they just friends when it was just online? Or were they already a couple the day they met in person?

If the first video is from the first time they met in person, that video reads so much like "I'm finally meeting my boyfriend in person for the first time." (especially from Phil). It's arguably the most touchy video, at least of the dozens I've seen. I mean that's been a Tumblr thing for forever, start dating someone and then meet them later.

I'm just wondering if the anniversary of their relationship is a day genuinely no one knows and that they really were together from that very first video and not a few weeks or months later.

It would also mean that their actual anniversary gets to stay just for them while they publicly celebrate the day they met, and that's a really sweet thought.

[ilovedig]

Question: Did the fact that Dan said his gender identity is basically a blob and he couldn't care less what pronouns someone uses for him get attention when the coming out video was posted?

Cause that's not exactly cis, nothing about the little gender monologue felt cis at all. I mean, agender is absolutely a valid gender identity. I get the indication he very much sees gender as trans and cis and not a spectrum, but that description really didn't sound cis.

[ilovedig]

Do Dan and Phil realize they were already a couples channel? The line between their content and "couple content" really doesn't exist. Watching the newlyweds game, from last year, and just truly stunned that they said all that while still not officially publicly being a couple.

But watching it knowing that, nothing sets that video apart from a video of a public couple, except maybe the comment about flirting with a waiter, but that's literally it.

So I truly don't know what they meant when they said they're not becoming a couples channel in the announcement video. Or do they genuinely not realize how much they were already doing that?

[ilovedig]

I'm new, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm certainly not new to fandoms in general, I can't be the only one who is completely grossed out by the daily mail article, right?

Source? Insider? What is this, a leaked movie? Something that happened in parliment?

They JUST said they wanted to keep things private and if said insider doesn't give their name, chances are very high they did not get permission to talk.

Like great, new photos, but also a bunch of weird invasive quotes from someone who is clearly not as good a friend as they thought this person was.

The truth about Dan and Phil's secret relationship - and exactly why …

I'm honestly never not disgusted by something the Daily Mail does. So I guess this shouldn't be remotely surprising.

[ilovedig]

I am quickly realizing I'm becoming a fan. I think that being in their world could definitely be a useful coping mechanism for my stressful life.

No, I didn't care about them before yesterday, but did know some things thanks to Tumblr osmosis.

I'm in my 30s. I don't want to accidentally befriend a child, so if you are in your late 20s or 30s and want to give me an education, and maybe become friends, shoot me a message.

K thanks bye

[therealdrownersclub]

Paul Simon's Letter to Art Garfunkel, 1957

Salutations-

You won't believe this but I was gonna write to you but i didn't know your camp address. (oh bullshit, I knew your address 'cause i looked it up in a camp directory. I was just too lazy to write). Don't let it bother you though, 'cause I only wrote my mother once so far, and that was the first week. I guess I just don't like to write to boys and mothers.

Let me tell you man, this being a waiter is great. Except for the damn sloppy meals it's great fun. As far as entertainment goes you can imagine what a crazy guitar-thumpin' kid can do to these kids. I've really learned a lot about singing and according to my father, my voice has improved. Oh, yeah, you're gonna crack-up? My father was on the "Ted Steele Show" the other day and he sang a song he made up called "Water in My Ear". It's a real weirdy (?). The kind only my father could think of. Well, anyway, he made a demo of it right off.

Well, I guess I'll sign off now. Send my love to Marilyn and the other nice looking girls...

Paul.

P.S. I've written a new song called "Bobbie". I think it's real good. See ya.

source

[ilovedig]

Did I care about Dan and Phil before today? Not particularly.

Did I become a fan after that video? Very possibly.

Am I kind of stunned that someone's gay rpf ship was actually confirmed? Abosolutely.

Also, I hope this makes their lives better, cause it sounds like it takes hundreds of bricks off their shoulders.

[cataclysmiceuphemism]

happy anniversary to this moment :)

(shout out to dolenzarchive for having the clip without the weird VHS skip)

[micky-with-no-e]

The Monkeeverse is one of those things that makes less sense instead of more as you get into it. The show spans genres and never has multipart plot lines and yet somehow manages to have better continuity than many shows that rely on ongoing storylines. The show in question is fictional, but the actors share the names. Are they characters or are they people? The lines blur between them, creating an air of ambiguity. People hate them for not being the fictional characters. People accuse them of not being the fictional characters. They are mistaken for the fictional characters. The real men, ordinary men turned television rock and roll gods, are now locked into these personas in the real world. They make a film about killing themselves to escape the machine that forces them to be living comedy caricatures. The movie flops because it isn’t funny. The public doesn’t get why that in itself is ironic. Behind the scenes they fight tooth and nail to be a real band. People don’t believe they play their own music. They will perform these same songs until they die. They are sex and drugs and rock and roll given a G rating and make it through grueling schedules with cocaine. They regularly appear on the show in drag and speak out against the Vietnam war. Hippie ideals and fashion leak steadily into the show, creating even more of a blur between television and reality. They hate being The Monkees. They will always be The Monkees. They will miss being The Monkees. The Monkees will never die. The Monkees are killed on screen. Are the “blooper” clips spliced into aired episodes performed by the actors or the characters? They signed away their names and there’s no difference between them and their brand. With one signature they’ll never be taken seriously again. With one signature they’ll change history. No, as an audience you’ll never get to know how much is real or what all of it really means. It was never meant to be taken seriously. It’s not that deep. It is that deep. Anyway, take a guess whether The Monkees being on an FBI watchlist is a fictional plot line or real life.

[thecoleopterawithana]

“John loved this tape echo and used it more than any of us, so it became a signature sound on his solo records. I’m acknowledging that by using it here. I remember first singing ‘Let Me Roll It’ and thinking, ‘Yeah, this is very like a John song.’ It’s in John’s area of vocalisation, needless to say, but the most Lennon-esque thing is the echo. The single most significant element in this song is not the echo, though. It’s not the vocalisation. It’s not the lyrics. It’s the guitar riff. The word that comes to mind is ‘searing’. It’s a searing little thing. We can talk about lyrics till the cows come home, but a good riff is a rare beauty. This one is so dramatic that people in the audience gasp when they hear it. Because it stops so abruptly, it feels like everything freezes. Time freezes. […] ‘Let Me Roll It’ is a love song at its heart. The other, erotic, sense of rolling that is part and parcel of rock and roll is very much part of it. The image of ‘My heart is like a wheel’ so ‘Let me roll it to you’ is one that anyone can connect with. Anyone can understand how exposed you feel when you offer your heart to, or reveal your affections for, another person. It’s very difficult. The hesitation we feel in that situation – of wanting to reach out but being reluctant to be completely open – is made physical in the abrupt starting and stopping of the riff. The constant cutting short of the momentum of the song mimes the subject matter. We all relate to that situation. A year or two back, I saw a musical called Be More Chill by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz, about a nerdy boy who can’t say he loves someone. He has a speech impediment, a nervous stammer. ‘Let Me Roll It’ is a sort of long, drawn-out stammer.”

— Paul McCartney, about Band On The Run’s (1973) ‘Let Me Roll It’. In The Lyrics (2021).

[ilovedig]

It's fascinating that he doesn't mention George, because it's so so similar to The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp. There's no way that's just a coincidence

George Harrison – Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)

“Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)” is a song by George Harrison and was released on his acclaimed triple album, All Things Must Pas

[whitealbum]

me and who